Cairo Surrender
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (819 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 192187970X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 116 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
There is little doubt what Abazar is interested in during days of cat-and-mouse maneuvering, but what he seeks is not easily attainable—and the whole situation has a hint of mystery and questionability about it. Is Abazar saving or destroying Michael?. To distract the distraught American, Abazar, the master storyteller, weaves for him enticing stories of the ultimate pleasure while depicting their current shared circumstances as proof of the fickleness and fleeting security of life. Before the evening is over, Michael has been kidnapped and imprisoned with Rushdy Abazar. Anti-British and nationalist sentiments have been increasing for four years and have just reached their peak with the violent reaction to the reparations demanded for the 1924 assassination in Cairo of the British governor of the Sudan. Sir Cecil and Michael, the lone orphan and heir of an American industrial fortune, sup in the Gentlemen’s Dining Room of Cairo’s venerable Shepheard’s Hotel, center of the British colonial society in Cairo, on the eve of a journey up the Nile to visit the recently opened tomb of the boy pharaoh, Tutankhamun. Here the appearance of the handsome, fair-haired youth captures the notice of several men